History of Art & Design Styles: c 1800 to c 1900

The building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, begun in 1857, is the most elaborately designed and decorated museum in Britain. This book is the f...

Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltze...

A collection of quotes from Vincent van Gogh on art, love, nature, colour, ambition, friendship, future, sorrow and consolation. There are so many...

Briefe gehörten für Warburg zu den wichtigsten Formen des gedanklichen Austausches. In der Korrespondenz mit Familie, Freunden und Kollegen äußerte...

Women on Philosophy of Art is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. It looks at seven women spanning t...

This book is the first volume on the artistic representation of industrial disputes in European art (from 1870 to 1914) since the catalogue of the ...

With essays on sojourning artists like Situ Qiao and local artists such as Tchang Ju Chi, Singaporean scholar and educator Yeo Mang Thong demonstra...

With their collecting boxes, notebooks and paintbrushes, Harriet and Helena Scott entered the masculine worlds of science and art and became two of...

Imaging Animal Industry focuses on the visual culture of the American meat industry between 1890 and 1960. It describes how, during that period, ph...

The definitive English-language account of a singular Nordic artistThe Norwegian painter, novelist, and social critic Christian Krohg (18521925) is...

Fifty years ago, Canada celebrated its hundredth anniversary of Confederation. At Expo 67, in communities across the country, we celebrated our com...

The Ash K. Prakash Collection of works by James W. Morrice offers an exciting journey into the personal and artistic explorations of the first Cana...

No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (18401926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists,...

When all that was solid melted into air... For decades, intellectuals from Benjamin to Bourdieu, Berman to Foucault, have been in thrall to this vi...

The Courtauld Gallery holds the most important collection of works in the United Kingdom by the Post-impressionist master Paul Gauguin (18411903). ...

In Making the Unknown Known, leading scholars throughout Texas explore the significant role women artists played in developing early Texas art from...

In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic pro...

Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (18661944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early ...

Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (18661944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early ...

Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (18661944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early ...

Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books, Pierre-Auguste Renoir Masterpieces of Art features the popular works of this insightful artist, f...

Winter, spring, summer, autumnspend the whole year with masterworks of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in this new weekly engagement calendar ...

Winter, spring, summer, autumnspend the whole year with masterworks of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in this new weekly engagement calendar ...

From landscapes and seascapes to still lifes and portraits, this 12-month calendar highlights 13 vibrant paintings by renowned Impressionist and Po...

From landscapes and seascapes to still lifes and portraits, this 12-month calendar highlights 13 vibrant paintings by renowned Impressionist and Po...

The Ashmolean's collection of drawings and watercolours by Camille Pissarro is the largest in the world and is indeed the largest single collection...

Richly illustrated, this is the first study in English to explore the longevity of Orientalist art in Spain over a period of 120 years. It highlig...

Princeton and the Gothic Revival investigates America's changing attitudes toward medieval art around the turn of the twentieth century through the...

An innovative study of how the Victorians used books, portraits, fairies, microscopes, and dollhouses to imagine miniature worlds beyond perception...

Michel Strauss embarked on an enduring love affair at the age of six when he saw for the first time paintings by Manet, Monet and Degas: the passio...

A bold reassessment of the major architectural monuments and urban forms of the worlds first industrial city: Manchester From the mid-eighteenth ce...

In 1851 John Ruskin came to the defence of the young artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood by writing two letters to The Times, refuting wides...

Child of the Fire is the first book-length examination of the career of the nineteenth-century artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, best known for her sculpt...

The book examines military paintings in France in the 1850s and 1860s, when the genre experienced a new lease of life. It recreates the paintings a...

In 2015 the McCord Museum in Montreal, Canada, was gifted with the Allan Slaight Collection, one of the largest treasuries of posters and documents...

Over a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (18621918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artisti...

A radical, lively departure from received notions about art of the Romantic period For many, the term neoclassicism has come to imply discipline, o...

This revelatory book traces how the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their close associates put scientific principles into practice across their pain...

The mutual history of art, agriculture, and American identity as told through the theme of the harvest.The harvest has traditionally been a product...

This book examines the overlapping worlds of art and medicine in late-nineteenth-century France. It sheds new light on the relevance of the visual ...

Despite the upheavals of the first decades of the nineteenth century, Paris soon recovered its position as a leading centre for furniture and desig...

An in-depth look at the changing status of American artists in the 18th and early 19th century This fascinating book is the first comprehensive art...